BACKGROUND We examined adolescents' differentiation of their self-reported physical and mental health status, the relative importance of these variables and five important life domains (satisfaction with family, friends, living environment, school and self) with respect to adolescents' global quality of life (QOL), and the extent to which the five life domains mediate the relationships between ...

Background & aim: Perinatal mental health problems have been demonstrated to impact upon maternal, and fetal/child outcomes. Despite the global evidence and a policy-driven responsibility for identification of these problems, research demonstrates that student midwives/midwives lack knowledge and confidence to assess, identify, and manage them. A similar context is evident for learning disabili...

Aims and method Media portrayals of mental illness have long been recognised as being misleading and stigmatising. Following the campaigns of several advocacy groups to address this issue, we aimed to evaluate the impact on mental health reporting over time. We repeated a survey we did 15 years ago using the same methods. Nine UK daily newspapers were surveyed over a 4-week period and coded wit...

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) account for the largest burden of early mortality and are predicted to cost the global community more than US $30 trillion over the next 20 years. Unhealthy dietary habits, in large part driven by substantial changes to global food systems, are recognised as major contributors to many of the common NCDs, including cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes. Rece...

The promotion and the protection of physical and, recently, mental health is a globally recognized priority. This is not true though with regard for their interrelationship which has received little attention from both medical branches. It is well known that physical healthproblems or disabilities are accompanied by or combined with mental health symptoms or disorders and vice versa. The advant...

objective: the present study aimed to compare mental health of female athlete and non-athlete students in the city of indica. the research methodology was a descriptive survey, which initially described the mental health and then compared it among the students. methods: the statistical population of the study included all high school girls in the academic year of 2012-2013 in the city of indica...